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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

GOP/Christofascist Apocalyptic Fantasies Unleashed in Israel

One of the 1,500+ injured Palestinians.

At times the only segment of the American population that Donald Trump seems to strive to please are the evangelical Christofascists (since many of them are racists, perhaps Trump seeks to please white supremacists). A case in point is the lunatic decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem which was seized by Israeli force of arms without international law blessing. As any sane person would have expected, Palestinians are not happy and, as seems to be always the case, the protests turned bloody and one-sided with Palestinian deaths and injuries while Israelis remained unharmed. The Washington Post noted the casualties:

Israeli forces killed 58 Palestinians at the boundary
fence with Gaza on Monday . . . No Israeli soldiers were injured,
though, and Israel drew widespread condemnation for an excessive use of
force. More than 2,700 people were injured, according to the Palestinian
Health Ministry in Gaza, including 1,359 from live ammunition. The dead
included six children under the age of 18, among them a 15-year-old girl, and a
medic, the ministry said.

Adding to the ugliness of the event was the presence and speeches of two Christofascist extremist preachers who, like their unwashed co-religionists, back the embassy move because in their delusional minds, it is helping to set the stage for the Apocalypse - when all but an small number of Jews survive and countless millions of humans perish. A column in Esquire puts the idiocy in perspective:

More
than 20 people in Gaza were
dead on Monday before anyone in Washington had had their breakfast. This
was pitched to the awakening nation as a series of “deadly clashes,” even
though the deadly part only applied to one side. It was a great start to a day
in which the president*, who doesn’t know anything about anything, prepared to
toss a lighted match into a lagoon of gasoline in the Middle East.

The
decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is more
unnecessary than it is stupid and dangerous, and it’s pretty stupid and
dangerous. There was no overwhelming political support—and certainly no
overwhelming political pressure—in this country for such a provocative
development. It was solely the desire of that odd mixture of highly
conservative Judaism and American splinter Protestantism, of the prolonged
slow-dance between the apocalyptic factions of two major monotheisms that very
likely will incite the apocalyptic faction of the third. It is religious
extremism disguised as international diplomacy.

How
do I know this? Well, Jared and Ivanka Trump already have met with a
conservative rabbi who
thinks black people are monkeys.The United States of America will be
represented at the ceremony by Robert Jeffress and John Hagee, two
completely batshit-insane TV preachers with long histories of supporting
Israel because it allegedly will be largely set-decoration for the end times. .
. . . From CNN:

Hagee, whose group is dedicated to
organizing pro-Israel Christians in the United States into a unified voice, has
had relationships with Israeli prime ministers dating back years. But he came
under the national political spotlight in 2008 for comments that prompted
then-Republican presidential candidate John McCain to reject his endorsement.
During the campaign, audio from one of Hagee's sermons in the 1990s was leaked
that seemed to suggest that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by
aiding the desire of Jews to return to Israel in accordance with biblical
prophecy.

As for Jeffress, well, he’s been the
chaplain on the Trump Train for a while now, and he also has a long record of
interesting pronouncements on world religions.

Some might remember Jeffress for his
frequent condemnations of Mormonism as a "cult" during the 2012
presidential campaign and his urging of Christians not to vote for Mitt Romney,
a Mormon, during the Republican primary. But Jeffress has also called Islam and
Mormonism heresies "from
the pit of hell," suggested that the Catholic church was led
astray by Satan, accused then-President Barack Obama of "paving
the way" for the Antichrist, and spread false statistics about the prevalence
of HIV among gays, who he said live a "miserable"
and "filthy" lifestyle.Every
American of every faith—to say nothing of Americans who have no religious faith
at all—should be embarrassed to be represented by this collection of crackpots
and thooleramawns, gone off to Israel to bless an unnecessary and perilous
politico-religious gambit that owes more to fringe religion and domestic
Israeli politics than to any American national interest.For
the first time in its history, the United States has entered into what is at
least partly an ancient religious war. This is exactly why our Constitution is
as godless as it is.

The Palestinians, of course, are not the only ones outraged by Trump's move. Countless millions will now be much more receptive to a message that America is their enemy. Don't be surprised if more terror attacks take place on American soil. Trump has just about guaranteed that they will through this self-prostitution to Christofascists.

1 comment:

"when all but an small number of Jews survive and countless millions of humans perish"

Slight correction, Michael. "when only those Jews who are willing to undergo forced conversion survive and countless billions of humans perish." And by Jesus' own explicit teachings, which these creatures claim to believe as gospel, approximately none of these wretched excuses for human beings will get to go to heaven because they are claiming their brownie points now, and essentially all of them will burn in hell until the end of time and beyond.

And I am sputtering at the grotesque obscenity of Netanyahu's de facto endorsement of people like Jeffress and Hagee who see the extinction of the Jewish people in our own time as something to look forward too.

And adding injury to injury, Mitch McConnell has just named Tony Perkins to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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